• Metal Zealot
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know about you… But if my country were able to spend 75 billion dollars helping foreign countries, I’d sure hope they’d use some of it to solve problems here at home too…

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      8 months ago

      Problem is that the more money we spend on social services, the more expensive they become because they’re all owned by corporations that are maximizing profit.

      Something something ‘seize the means of production.’

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        38 months ago

        Has that already happened with fire departments? Sure someone is probably corrupt, but they do a great job of keeping my house not on fire for free. I’d love M4A, even if middlemen skim off the top in the short term.

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          48 months ago

          Fire departments are funded by local taxes or staffed by volunteers.

          There isn’t a massive for-profit firemen corporation that controls departments across the US, to the best of my knowledge.

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            28 months ago

            It wasn’t massive by today’s standards, but we did actually used to have for profit fire departments funded by insurance.

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      US gets to do very real long term damage to a hostile nation without risking any American lives? All while gaining battlefield knowledge and liquidating aging munitions? Sounds like a great investment to me.

        • @Bridger
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          The funding for Ukraine is not the thing holding those things back. Republican regressive politicians are the thing holding those things back. We have plenty of money to do both.

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            18 months ago

            Oh yeah? Are there any Democrats in power pushing to do those things? Or are they only pushing for more war. Neither party gives a shit about pay for teachers or healthcare. All they both want is more bombs and more death.

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          28 months ago

          You spout a popular right wing talking point. It stems from the misinformed belief that governments don’t budget and everything is in one giant pot of money and that governments can only do one thing at a time.

          Countries don’t work this way. Your argument is meaningless and incorrect.

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              8 months ago

              Name any other country with that large of a per-capita healthcare budget. The US has the money, it just all goes into the pockets of insurers. Your issues aren’t budgetary.

          • Metal Zealot
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            Name one instance in your lifetime where Republicans have fought for affordable health care.

            You’ve drank so much USA koolaid that you can’t see any other way that a country could possibly be run